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transcriptional

American  
[tran-skrip-shuhn-uhl] / trænˈskrɪp ʃən əl /

adjective

  1. relating to, occurring during, or involving transcription.


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These so-called "youthful transcriptional profiles" were linked to better energy metabolism and lower levels of inflammation.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

TPRX2 is thought to be inactive as a pseudogene, as an essential transcriptional activator in these initial phases of development.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

Losick has identified a protein that helps control polyploidy in fruit flies: the fly equivalent of a mammalian molecule called YAP1, for yes1 associated transcriptional regulator.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

Therefore, in prokaryotic cells, the control of gene expression is almost entirely at the transcriptional level.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

But, as every one must see, 'such things as these are not 'readings' at all, nor even the work of 'the heretics;' but simply transcriptional mistakes.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

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